Baby basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is yellow Pine. Rim bound with same and cloth. Dirty and in very poor condition; smashed and falling apart; strips of cloth have been tied on for crude repairs. Oval-shaped. Openwork with groups of 3 rows of tight plain twining, the third row turned the opposite direction. A bundle of shoots is sewn together as the rim in some places. Repaired with white gauze fabric. White fabric ties and loops, with the exception of one of blue denim.
Donor:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection place:
Stillwater Creek, Shasta County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Shasta; Stillwater Creek
Culture or time period:
Northern Wintun and Wintu
Collector:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection date:
November 1910
Materials:
Pine (wood) and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Cradles (children's beds), and Twined weaving
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
1910
Context of use:
Baby basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 34 centimeters and width 61 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 69.